Thursday, march 7th. And this is fox friends. Ainsley the brother of laken rileys murder suspect linked to Venezuelan Gang. A live report from the border. Brian big shocker. Plus, we are hours away from the State Of The Union. Thats our permission to stay up late tonight. Brandon branding his address as a public reset. Steve new kid on the block. A 21yearold beat out a long time incumbent in North Carolina. Ainsley 21 . Steve i know it. We are going to talk to him. Lawrence second hour of fox friends begins right now and remember, mornings are better with friends. All right. We start this morning of fox friends with the State Of The Union address, which is tonight, where laken rileys parents were invited to attend but declined; however, a georgia congressman is leaving a seat open in her honor and her memory. Ainsley tonights speech marks a Pivotal Moment from President Biden and his 2024 opponent. Former President Donald Trump says that he is going to be watching closely, factchecking live. Brian going to come on truth social. We are going to begin this hour with team coverage. Griff jenkins is live at the border in eagle pass, texas. We begin with Jacqui Heinrich live at the white house. Jacqui, preview for us, wont you . Jacqui hey there, good morning, guys. With the president s age and widespread voter disapproval about how he has handled his job, this address tonight is essentially going to be like sitting for a Job Interview for the American Public to choose him again next year for another four years or in november, rather, for another four years. Is he going to paint the usual contrast that we often hear with trump and what he calls dangerous maga republican agenda. Buy he is also going to be making a boogie man out of corporations. Is he going to be blaming corporate greed for things like shrinkflation and stubborn high prices. Specifically, he is going to be calling on companies to pay their fair share by raising the Corporate Tax rate to 28 and the corporate minimum tax to 21 . White house spokesman andrew bates tells Fox Last YearHouse Republicans budget plan raised cost for seniors on medicare. Raised Emergency Costs and costs of college helping rich tax cheats take advantage of every other american. President biden will stress to the country whose side he is on. House Speaker Mike Johnson already issuing a rebuttal to that coming message. America is at a breaking point. Joe biden is touting bidenomics. Bidenomics is working. 78 of voters view the economy negatively. And that the president is to blame. Jacqui former President Trump also says is he going to be factchecking bidens claims. He posted im pleased to inform you that tomorrow night he will be doing a live play by play of crooked joe bidens State Of The Union address. I will correct and Rapid Response any and all inaccurate statements. Biden will try to highlight his achievements the last three years, getting the economy back on its feet. Creating jobs after the pandemic. Targeting to Voter Constituencies whose support he needs to win in 2024 and concerned about the economy. Is he going to focus on efforts to drive down Prescription Drug prices and crack down on junk fees and things like that. We do certainly expect him to make the usual push he has been doing lately urging congress to pass ukraine aid, israel aid, support for taiwan in the indopacific and, of course, efforts to secure the border. Is he definitely going to be hitting republicans for not passing the senate negotiated bill. But its going to be a very delegate Balancing Act to pitch a positive message about a second term all while having the stamina and vigor at 81 years old to convince voters that hes right for the job, guys. Steve thats right. Jachecklehim like Marjorie Tayle did last year. It sound like the white house almost wants the republicans to engage him so that he can push back and look vigorous. Jacqui thats right. They want to see him swinging. They think that would do a good thing for voters to see him at 81 looking like he has still got it being snappy and having sharp responses. But you recall last year he kind of cornered republicans on the debate over Social Security and Veterans Benefits and made a deal live on the stage. I dont know that theres anything right now that he could corner them on and if that were to happen, whether it would work for the president outside we already discussed like Passing Ukraine aid and i dont know if we are going to have a similar moment. Mike johnson doesnt want to let it happen. He told members Behind Closed Doors yesterday decorum, please. We will see how it goes. Brian he also should also note he should not rip up the script. If He Cannot Rip up the script like nancy pelosi, and i think republicans should behave themselves. No reason to yell out. Its not england. Lawrence especially when there is a reset going on. Ism to, when you have to reset your phone or any other device, that means something is crashing. Brian three years. Steve steve. Lawrence let it explode. Ainsley how will trump do the factchecking just talking through it and biden will Say Something . Lawrence point by point. Steve question will be who will be factchecking him. Trump is factchecking biden who is factchecking trump. Brian they like to ignore him but they cant anymore. Ainsley fox news alert with immigration. A top issue for the country. Brand new Video Shows Deputies and the coast guard apprehending 24 haitian migrants found on board a fishing boat off the coast of florida. Steve this is becoming a bigger problem for florida and, meanwhile, at the u. S. Southern border, concerns about gangs are rising as Court Documents reveal the brother of the suspect accused of murdering laken riley has ties to a notorious venezuelan street gang. Brian it gets worse. Griff jenkins is live in eagle pass. Hey, griff. Griff good morning, guys. And theres an undoubtable spring surge across the border from coast to coast. 35,000 encounters in just the past five days. Lets begin. Sebastian inlet in melbourne, florida, where you were just showing that Body Cam Footage you see the authorities apprehending 24 haitian migrants. They arrested two smugglers. There is of grave concern because of the crisis. Haiti is on the brink of collapse as armed gangs are Emptying Prisons there calling for the president to resign. The telltale sign about this boat was its a fishing boat with no fishing poles. Now, lets go 2500 miles all the way out to ha consume barks california, where we have shown you day after day, hundreds upon hundreds of chinese migrants streaming across open portions of that border. The daily mail reporting they spoke to chinese migrants who said the chinese smugglers on the mexican side, known as snake heads are assisting mexican cartels in bringing them across. No signs of that strong any time soon. Californias governor also not putting up any of the razor wire like you see here behind me. Now, finally, you mentioned laken riley in athens. The brother of the alleged murderer of laken riley. His name is diego ibarra. He was arrested on the same day for presenting a fake green card. Authorities now believe he may have tithes to the victorious Venezuelan Gang tren de aragua. Is the most violent gang coming out of there. It stands for train of aragua one of the states of venezuela. They were born out of a violent prison. They had ties, you remember, to the new york Cop Beating Case that we have shown in times square. Those believed to be members of this gang. The overall concern thats really being highlighted right now is that this gang, tren de aragua, or tda as its known, may be trying to establish themselves much like we have seen ms13. Now, finally, back out here, in eagle pass, this is one of the main areas, venezuelan migrants, particularly come to this part of texas and so Border Patrol officials here are starting to really Pay Attention to the tattoos that are on some of these venezuelan migrants, particularly the single adult males crossing to see if they might have any ties to the dangerous gang, not a positive development. Meanwhile, we will see what they do about this surge because its showing no signs of slowing down, guys . Brian i understand they also wear Bulls Jackets even though they are not nba fans. They wear Bulls Jackets. This guy in particular Doing Go Ibarra accused of trying to bite a Border Patrol agent. They took pictures of his tattoos at the time, too. I mean, if you get a tattoo and you wear a bulls jacket and we know about it, they are basically saying i dare you to get rid of me or arrest me. Griff well, thats right. And in that case, you mentioned, brian, is very important when diego came across another individual there was a biting of an agent. The other individual was arrested diego ibarra wasnt. Again, it highlights the Sanctuary City problems that people like diego and his brother were not removed. It will be interesting to see, particularly in the State Of The Union tonight, will the president mention these Sanctuary Cities and these cases where we have seen time and time again that a tragic murder or incident of violence did not have to happen but for they were protected by local sanctuary jurisdictions. Ainsley cartels are telling which cities to go to which ones are Sanctuary Cities, right . Griff absolutely, ainsley. People dont talk enough about that the cartels are facilitating it the ones that get across tell the ones that want to come behind them how to do it putting on social media places like that cut in the wall known as a san judas breakout in jacumba. Thats on tiktok. And people come and follow the routes and others were successful before them. Lawrence the president has an opportunity thanks, griff. Steve thank you, griff. Lawrence the president has an opportunity during his speech to call out the democratic Sanctuary Cities, sanctuary states and say start working with ice. Do it right now. Im telling you, its a bad policy, American People are being killed. They are attacking our cops. End it right now brightening brian change a word on that. Demand. Is he indicating that they should. He sells i demand as president of the United States to pull off that policy. Ainsley isnt it interesting that we are seeing and about cities changing their policies . [tone] brian this is only a test. Ainsley what is interesting democratic cities now getting outcry from the residents. Now they are going back to the conservative values and conservative policies. Brian big story today. Just go back to the summer of 2020 and how things started to change. Well, you know what . Here we are in the spring, almost the spring of 2024, and things are changing the other way. Lets start here in new york city. Last week there was a Train Conductor on one of the subways and what he did was he had the audacity to stick his head out the window to see if everybody was in the train and somebody had a blade and slashed his throat. Thats one of the stories that the governor of new york told yesterday as she dispatched a thousand National Guards and also cops down to the subway. There you see the National Guard. They have got guns. They look scary. They will not be able to arrest anybody. They will do some bag checks. But the whole idea is just to make it look like essentially all hands on deck. We have got some cops. Dont try anything stupid. Ainsley the mayor put out sent additional 1,000 City Police Officers into the subway in february after this uptick in january with assaults and thefts. Look, people in new york, they are cared to take the subway. Lawrence experiment failed in all the liberal cities. Same thing in san francisco. Prop e and f. E would encourage residents as well as city leaders to work with law enforcement. And f would suggest that there needs to be drug testing for people. Ainsley i love that. Lawrence for people to get welfare. The democrats and progressives are freaking out. San Francisco Chronicle saying can you no longer call yourself a progressive city if you are gonna have these Law And Order measures. Again, the progressives dont want to end the experiment after this death, poverty and destruction. Brian do you see what is going on . D. C. Says we are changing and be tougher on crime. Governor sends the National Guard down to the subway where subway crime is up 20 . In oregon they are saying you know you can do any drugs you want in the middle of the street at any moment . Turns out it was a bad move. Who would have thought this experiment would have gone awry. They are pulling back on that . Whats going on in our country you had your chance for four years. You thought if im easier on criminals, it will make it better for everyone. Turns out that criminals laughed in your face, committed five times the crime, you dont put them in jail. And even on long island well discuss this, they found body parts linked to four people who put the body parts and they let them out with ankle monitors. You can hack you can kill somebody, hack up their body, and still go home the same day. Steve because, brian, they were only charged with having essentially having things that could kill people. Brian an arm. Arm without a license. Lawrence aaronsly, only reason why they are doing this election time. All of the sudden they are backing away from this major reset. This is coming from the white house telling all of these remember, he was just meeting with the mayors, meeting with these governors. We got to turn this around before election or its going to be a landslide victory. Steve well, regarding the election, you are right. The problem is the super progressives are being essentially primaried by people in their own party who say the crazy wacky super left stuff where people can hack people up and get out of jail free, thats not working. So now in san francisco, to the point about the chronicle saying its no longer progressive is the people who were Super Ultra Progressive are now being replaced on the Democratic Council by moderates. Can you believe moderates . Ainsley that is why this election is so important. Are you better off . Is our country better off under joe biden . No. Look at crime. Now they are walking back all of those progressive policies because they see what is happening. And democrats who thought those policies were great are now starting to want the moderates, too. Our country is not better off. We live in a very scary time. Just ask precious laken rileys parents. They thought their daughter was safe at uga. Uga is a great school. They thought she was safe. She was lacing up those tennis shoes we were talking about that morning putting on gym clothes and no idea last time lacing up shoes. No idea what was about to happen to her. Brian should the Piro Maniac Get credit firefighter. Light the neighborhood on fire. Put on hard hat putting now they want credit for putting out the fire. Im sorry, we remember how it started. So do the people in these blue cities. Watch. Its a step in the right direction but it does not negate the years of countless lives lost. Broken homes. Businesses that are shutting down due to theft. You know, its crime is plaguing our city. And after 10 years, im glad that theyre finally listening, but its too late. Progressives i see are regrouping. They have seen they are licking their wounds from the results of elections just two days ago. And they are already talking about how they can combat their loss. Lawrence tithe turn. I agree with you, brian, you dont give the arsonist credit. Brian for putting out the fire. Lawrence putting out the fire they started. All of these city councils, all of these liberal cities supported the summer of love. Justice reform. More rights for the criminals. Attack on cops. Defund the police. Ainsley how about joe biden . Open borders. Day one. You know, executive orders. 90 different he rolled back 90 of Donald Trumps policies when it comes to border. You do all these stories on squatters. Can you live in someones home. Not pay for it, and you get to stay and the resident has to keep paying the person who owns it has to keep paying the bills. Steve heres the thing. Ultimately the big progressive towns we are talking about, particularly in california and new york, they are still going to elect democrats. But the question now is are you going to elect the democrat with the agenda who is so far to the left its out of touch with reality or now more moderates and keep in mind. It was just three days ago, two days ago, Kyrsten Sinema said compromise is